• Apple OS X

  Panther to Tiger

  Posted by Fia2444 on October 15, 2005 at 9:58 am

  HI,

  I want to upgrade my G5 from Panther to Tiger.

  What is the safest way to perform the upgrade?

  Will it erase all the files on my hard drive?

  Do I have to clone my drive and if I clone my drive will the files work on Tiger?

  Sophie

  Bob Woodhead replied 20 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Bob Woodhead

  October 18, 2005 at 1:04 pm

  I read a bunch of threads on this before my upgrade, and went this way:
  1] buy a new drive, install along with current system drive. [fyi, i had to format it w/ Panther – Tiger woouldn’t install on blank drive]
  2] install tigger on new drive
  3] after install is done, tigger will see your old system drive & ask if you want to copy user data, applications, etc. say yes.
  4] done
  In the 25 (?) years I’ve pummelled computers of all OS’es, this was FAR AWAY THE EASIEST upgrade I’ve EVER done. MS needs to take a page from this chapter. KUDOS TO APPLE.
  There are cheaper ways to upgrade to Tiger, but this appears to be the easiest & most successful.

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